Yep, washed them and it improved playing a bit.
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I will only accept original mono tracks for use in my restoration projects.
On my end, I haven't been able to find any good deal on the Italian Blu-ray for Fistful, but I do intend to look for other materials for my planned Dollars Trilogy restoration in the meantime, so as not to waste too much time.
@Stamper is the fog on the playing surface? Sounds like the MGM/Technicolor disc problem. Washing the discs might fix it if they're not too far gone
DVDrot... currently I'm buying some used stuff (about 2 bucks a film) to save the original mixes... just got Rambo 1 + 2 alas those discs show severe fog on their surface. Was able to play them and rip them, but they're due to be unusable in 10 years times. So be sure to save on those early discs (from 1997 to 2002) while you can, they all have original mixes that were crapped upon and doctored for reissues.
The real question is does the hd-dvd pron have DNR compared to the blu? @MrBrown you'll have to get the blu ray and compare them 
Well... I think of buying the pron parodys to nightmare on elm street and the human Centipede...
More to the point, who in the hell would put undeclared pr0n in a bulk auction?
I just bought a package of HD-DVD. The two Fleshwestern were not mentioned 8n the eBay auction...
@IcePrick I agree it's looking very good. I've got it pre-ordered. It was always a long shot that they would get the rights to the original dub
@zoidberg It's a minor disappointment for me, but it is shaping up to be a killer release. At least Eureka gives a damn about the movie.
@Stamper. Try Valeyard's Motion-Adaptive script. You can find it in the Restoration Guides subforum.
I think some field blending is involved to keep PAL playing at the same lenght as original footage, thus it's unusable to remaster
Anyone knows how to fix this? Pal, 25fps stuff that is actually the same lenght as the 23.976fps NTSC version. If I convert back to NTSC, it's shorter, if I keep 25fps, I can't sync in FCPX as the timeline is 23.976
Hey... It is a Shoutbox... And if a language qualifies for shouting... It is German... 
Anyway... I finally got finished using VirtualDub to make a high-quality recording of my 20th Century-Fox Video rental tape of Fistful of Dollars. As soon as I can, I'll put up screenshots from it and the later MGM/UA tape for comparison purposes.
Seriously though, I need not consult my German dictionary just to follow your conversations.
Grüße aus momentan Braunschweig... Auch wenn ich zuweilen noch zu Hause in Mülheim an der Ruhr bin...
I'm sure you've got a few unique video masters/sound mixes/special features in amongst that job lot! Is there anything unique about the T2 steelbook other than the 7.1 audio?
mostly the HD-DVD and the BD counterparts are very similar.. just almost unnoticable encoding differences...
...and that's a pity, because some of the companies, first on the HD-DVD trian, and later jumped the BD train revised their HD masters with DNR for BD releases...
Yeah, I think one disc replication plant was the culprit, and Warner titles seem to be affected most. Had a Universal combo disc go bad too. The DVD side worked fine though.
I think the Harry Potter may be a problem, I Already have some of them already, that don't work on my external drive... For the price it is worth a shot to take some rotten...
I hope they are all rot free. I've had three HD DVD's go bad on me in the past few years.
Quite a list for sure. I have a small collection of German HD-DVD releases of movies I enjoy.
@crissrudd4554 - I think he just doesn't have a lot of time for Fanres at the moment.
What I do have is a good idea of several of the sources I'll be using for the restoration, at least one of the sources, and a good deal of information to work with when reconstructing certain things.
And I've made some progress on that front, too--I'm still in the process of learning how to use a hex editor to make MPLS files, of course.
Well, I'm kind of new here, having only been on this site for less'n a month, and yet I'm already in the planning stages for my very first restoration project, for Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy.
To be honest, I haven't really heard of Jerry much, if at all. Out of curiosity, what's this latest fuss about him about?
@Jetrell Fo last I heard from him he was rendering a video but that was a few weeks ago
The tits are cropped out in 2.39, they weren't in the cinemas. You need to go 16/9 for T3, or bust.
Frankly, a THX-certified release can look excellent, done right. Titanic in 3D is just one example. I should know, I've seen it myself.
For a lot of aspects I still find T3 being better than T2. T1 of course being the best of all.
At this point, I'm going to go with 21:9 for T3. Sorry, I'm a bit of a prude. 
We got the girl tits in T3 perfect in 16/9 so no need for 4:3. The only value of this film is the tits in the opening credits. Rather than watch the whole film, just loop that shot for 2H and you're good to go.
T3 is supposed to be 2.39:1 but I'm gonna say it looks top notch in 1.78:1
Works well in both aspect ratios. Was meant to be screened at ~1.85:1 in theatres but Bob Zemeckis thought about the whole 1.33:1 framing during the making because he knew the movie was going to be seen a lot on video that's also why the 1.85:1 framing looks a bit "tight". A perfect AR for that movie would be 1.66:1 IMO since it's a good compromise between 1.33:1 and 1.85:1 and it matches the matted 1.66:1 FX shots as well.
Supposing the Dollars Trilogy got THX certifications back when they were overused especially on laser videodiscs? What would be the best scenes to use visually, when showing off to your friends?
The japanese BD is filled with subtitles.. seems as if some kind of international release is ahead... at least subtitle wise the release is very, very international...
Yeah saw that Alien teaser, awesome. There's another one with the end card, this one is cut off. Since this teaser is mostly alternate footage, this is the best we're going to get.
And with German friendly... I specifically meant: it has German audio option and German menu language...
At least it plays fine on my German PS4... And Japan normally is Region A, while Germany is region B... I assume it is at least Region A+B...